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 surface glabrous, pale beneath; the lowermost leaves shorter. Sheaths ample, with a membranous margin, elegantly lineated, and having a large, obtuse, appressed ligule. Spike terminal, large, shorter than the uppermost leaves, consisting of loosely imbricated, coriaceous, broad, ovate, smooth, four-flowered bracteas, each about three inches long ; inner bracteas thin and membranaceous, much smaller than the outer ones. Flowers very large; orange coloured, highly fragrant. Calyx two inches long, oblong at the upper end, subventricose and split on one side, much bearded, entire. Tube of the Corolla cylindrical, two inches and a half long, double the length of the calyx; limb spreading; exterior laciniæ linear, acute, loosely patent, about fourteen lines long; inner two (or lateral ones) cuneate, unguiculate, rather shorter than the outer ones, but their apex much broader than those, shortly clawed. Lip very large, roundish, retuse, lateral margins sometimes notched, an inch and a half in diameter, furnished with a short, broad claw. Filament divaricate, thick, semicylindrical, orange-coloured, equalling in length the inner petals, rather, though very little, shorter than the lip. Anther oblong, thick, fleshy, half an inch long, with a saggitate, bilobate base, the lobes of which are slenderish. Ovary thick ovate, obscurely triangular, shining, smooth: Style filiform, pallid, with the usual two short, yellow bodies at its base (within the tube): Stigma rather large, clavate, compressed, transverse, obtuse and convex, greenish-yellow, villous. Wallich.

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